The Pharmacist of Auschwitz. The Unknown Story of Viktor Capesius

«The Pharmacist of Auschwitz» — the little-known story of Viktor Capesius, a pharmaceutical salesman from Romania, who at the age of 35 joined the ranks of the Nazis and in 1943 became the chief pharmacist at the largest death camp, Auschwitz. Partially based on previously classified documents, Patricia Posner tells the story of Capesius, his escape from justice, and finally his prosecution twenty years after the war for numerous murders. However, «The Pharmacist of Auschwitz» is much more than a tale of Viktor Capesius. It is a story of murder and greed, rooted in the dark heart of the Holocaust. It is the story of people who became war criminals as well as courageous survivors of concentration camps and Nazi hunters.